An evaluation of the empirical vancomycin dosing guide in pediatric cardiology.

Background: Higher doses of vancomycin are currently prescribed due to the emergence of bacterial tolerance and resistance. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the currently adopted vancomycin dosing guide in pediatric cardiology.

Methods: This was a single-center prospective cohort study with pediatric cardiac patients, younger than 14 years, from June 2020 to March 2021.

Impact of empirical oseltamivir discontinuation in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia after confirmed negative for influenza.

Objectives: To study the effect of appropriate oseltamivir discontinuation in patients hospitalized with pneumonia, after they tested negative for influenza.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted at King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Patients admitted with a diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia and started on empirical oseltamivir were included.

The use of ivabradine in a patient with inappropriate sinus tachycardia and cardiomyopathy due to limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2I.

Muscular dystrophies are a heterogeneous group of disorders that commonly involve cardiac and skeletal muscle. Comprehensive guidelines for the management of cardiac failure and arrhythmias are available. However, the studies from which their recommendations are derived did not include any patients with muscular dystrophy.

The impact of introduction of Code-STEMI program on the reduction of door-to-balloon time in acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention: A single-center study in Saudi Arabia.

Objectives: This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of direct emergency department activation of the catheterization lab on door-to-balloon time (D2BT) and outcomes of acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients at a major tertiary care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study that enrolled 100 consecutive patients with acute STEMI who underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention between June 2010 and January 2015. The patients were divided into two groups of 50 patients each.

Accuracy of postthyroidectomy parathyroid hormone and corrected calcium levels as early predictors of clinical hypocalcemia.

Objective: To evaluate the accuracy of measurement of different parathyroid hormone (PTH) and corrected calcium (cCa) levels at different times as early predictors of postthyroidectomy hypocalcemia.

Design: A retrospective cohort study.

Setting: King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, between January 2006 and March 2009.